Those days are lost now where a show can cross race, age, socioeconomic status and just kind of be something people can rally around and talk about.  Ditto with album releases as events.

I think we should all be happy to have experienced it (face it we are all the same age here) before it got lost and extinct to the ravages of time and progression.

This is just guessing but I still think at some part/point in his mind that he expected Slash and Duff to come back and help him finish the record.  That's why you had all the stuff about the reunion that almost happened in 2005.  In retrospect, I have to wonder what the hell Slash was hoping to accomplish by showing up in Las Vegas at the House of Blues in 2001.

As far as the current band goes, it's basically a continuation of 1993 EXCEPT that the parts are a little different and that they haven't solved whatever issues led to them breaking up in the first place.  This reunion is just all for touring revenue and nothing else.  There is /will be no attempt to write and record new music as a band anyway, even with the spectre of AFD turning 40 in a few years.

Dude lost his muse a long time ago (somewhere in the 2000s I'd say).  And he isn't even interested in doing a simple singing on a song if the other guys did all the other stuff and all he had to do was show up and sing.

Just curious but when did this change?  I still remember in the early mid 2000s where it was similar to the 90s in that there were a lot of choices in the type or amount of movies that were in theaters.  Yeah, there were still franchises like LOTR etc, but  I remember seeing the Others, Gangs of New York, Lost in Translation and even something like Memories of a Geisha playing in the theater.  As opposed to now where it's just franchises and maybe "message movies".

Did this change start developing in the late 2000s or the early 2010s? where you really see the creative bankruptcy take place.  I took a look at some of the best of 2010s films, and shit my list is going to be a ton of foreign films.

I was kind of wondering about this once since it got nominated for a best foreign film oscar.  Looks like I'll pass.

The Outfit (1973).  Revenge film starring Robert Duvall.  Made in between the Godfather movies.  And it delivers. It's not complex, just delivers what is sets out to.  Gritty and cool.  Suprised it isn't better known to be honest.

Missing (2021).  Japanese film.  Saw this on Tubi.  The premise is a little misleading and it takes a bit to get started but once it gets into high gear I was totally into it.  Reminded me of those 2010's Korean films I used to watch a lot of.

Hunt (2022) Speaking of Korean, this one is an espinoage thriller starring the guy from Squid Game (took me a while to place him).  There's nothing wrong with it and it's probably better than the majority of Hollywood fare getting pumped out in the same genre.    BUT some of these films can get overly complex plotwise and sometimes I swear I need a freaking scorecard/primer to keep track of the plots/characters floating around in the film.

Lost Souls (2000)  I went in semi blind on this one.  And guess what, I enjoyed it.  Probably at the tail end of Winona Ryder's prime.  I always kind of liked her which helps.  Anyway, it seems like Hollywood released a bunch of religious/supernatural type style thrilers in 99 and 2000.  I think this one kind of gets lost unfortuanatley.  I enjoyed this one as a film more than Stigmata (which may be better made). One of the biggest pluses on this movie is the cinematography.  It looks like one of those gritty 70s films, except it's set in 2000.  It's a bit of a slow burner.  I did get a kick out of seeing audio cassette tapes still in vogue in the year 2000.  NYC is prominent/a character which is always good. I sort of liked the ending too.